cat /dev/cdrom > mydisk.iso

[Shawn Tayler]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:14:04 -0400 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
exclaimed:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:54:24PM -0500, Net Llama! took 20 lines to
> write:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > Does this not work anymore on 2.6?
> > >
> > > I've been using this to copy CDs for as along as I can remember. But
> > > I've now tried it on FC2 and Ubuntu with no success. It just hangs.
> > >
> > > If this simple "trick" no longer works, how does one make an iso from
> > > a physical CD?
> > 
> > I've never done it that way.  Try:
> > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mydisk.iso
> 
> Precisely the method I use, with the possible exception of specifying
> the block size ("bs=8192").
> 

Ok,

I always used bs=1k when dd'ing iso's...

SHawn